St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-06
STRAY SUNBEAMS.

be because of the lack of proper effort.
Oar sister city will be represented by
the strongest committee that will ap-
pear in Washington-the strongest in
numbers and the strongest i'll the ability
and character of its members. But
with all that there is no positive aSsur
ance Of success. The choosing of a
place to hold national convention is
one of those things where the battle is
not always to the strong nor the race
to the swift.
The arguments in favor of selecting
Minneapolis as the place to hold the
next national Republican convention
are overwhelming-tha is. they would
be to a party not already stricken by
judicial blindness. But it so happens
that the national Republican party is
suffering from that malady just at this
time. Itcan't see in any direction. 1t is
simply cropping its way in the dark, and
is just as likely to hit on Kalamazoo or
any other backwoods town as it is an
important metropolis as the place to
hold its convention.
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1t is not our business to point out the
straight and narrow path to the Re-
publican party. but in very spirit of
charity we will say this much for its in
formation: If there is any part of the
political vineyard that needs eXtraor-
binary Republican culture this year.it is
the Northwest. The farmers of this
section have about made up their minds
that they have carried the Republican
burden Of protection about as long as
their broad shoulders can submit 10 it.
They are inclined to the opinion that
the only way to get relief is through the
Democratic party. President CLEvE-
LANDS honest administration of the
government. and that particular feature
of it wherein he recovered nearly 90
OO0,OO0 acres of land that had
been gObbled up by the corpora
lions and the land grabbers and has re-
stored it to the public domain, has made
wonderful impression on the North
western people. When they compare
the record of the CLEVELAND admins
tration with the records of former Re-
publican administrations, they are more
and more thoroughly convinced of the
necessity for perpetuating the CLEvE-
LAND administration another term.
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We have said this much in way of
kindness to the national Republican
committee, so that its members may be
guided by an intelligent understanding
of the situation. If there is any advan
tage in the way of working up local
feeling or enthusiasm by holding ma
tional convention in any particular To-
cality, then the Republicans in the
Northwest are sorely in need of all they
can get. The ground they stand on is
exceedingly slippery. and they need all
the bracing that is to be had.
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The crank who sang the dOxOlOgy in
the gallery of the house of representa-
tives Yesterday knew what he was about.
He was praising the Lord that he
didn't hold seat on the floor of the
house.
The cOlored people have done right to
have their own organization in this
state. They Sensibly recognize the fact
that their race can never be amalgamated
with the Caucasians. Their hope is in
clinging together. BY respecting them
selves they command the respect of the
other races. Their elevation must be
measurably the work of their own hands,
which can be most successfully done by
unifying processes and the eoncentra-
ton of power and influence.